mtail fsnotify error
mtail
on postgres-02
is failing with the following error:
2018-06-13_02:09:49.43051 E0613 02:09:49.430463 125453 log_watcher.go:68] fsnotify error: fsnotify queue overflow
2018-06-13_02:09:51.84774 E0613 02:09:51.847667 125453 log_watcher.go:68] fsnotify error: fsnotify queue overflow
2018-06-13_02:10:08.47757 E0613 02:10:08.477495 125453 log_watcher.go:68] fsnotify error: fsnotify queue overflow
2018-06-13_02:10:10.31040 E0613 02:10:10.310295 125453 log_watcher.go:68] fsnotify error: fsnotify queue overflow
2018-06-13_02:10:33.03086 E0613 02:10:33.030815 125453 log_watcher.go:68] fsnotify error: fsnotify queue overflow
This was discovered because it gave an alert about WAL-E backups no longer being taken, when in fact they were.
I fixed the issue for now by restarting mtail.